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Share your quitting journey

Surprise Surprise?

JonesCarpeDiem
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or, did you see it coming all along?

Failure doesn't hurtle through the sky like a block of frozen something  from an airliners toilet.

It's gradual.

Doesn't have to last an eternity. Two weeks. A month

We're doing along thinking about what were doing and the memory of the nicotine feeling can slide in and become more important than our quit.

We let that thought roll around in the back of our heads until  something bad happens and our quit doesn't seem so important or retainable.

You smoked

Did smoking patch the empty hole?

What are you going to do now?

New life opportunities won't present themselves forever.

Get your head back in the game.

Put them down before they put you down!

About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.